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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Week off granted',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/02/01.jpg" alt="Downed sign" class="framed-centred-image" width="649" height="480"/>
<section id="vasectomy">
	<h2>Vasectomy preparations</h2>
	<p>
		The instructions I was given say I&apos;m supposed to clean my genitals in the shower daily for three days before the vasectomy.
		I&apos;m not sure why anyone would skip cleaning their genitals in the shower, but I guess not everyone showers daily like I do.
		They also say I need to shave my genitals before the operation.
		I guess a while ago, I decided to use the start of the work week as a prompt for me to shave; I figure if I&apos;m shaving anyway, doing it before the three-day span might allow me to get a closer, deeper clean.
		Today&apos;s when I go back to work, so that&apos;s what I did today.
	</p>
	<p>
		I thought the only hair I wanted to keep was my scalp hair, my eyebrows, and my pubic hair.
		<del>After shaving today though, I&apos;m questioning the latter.
		My skin just felt so smooth.
		I wonder if they perform laser hair removal on genitals, too.
		I still need my scalp hair and eyebrows so I don&apos;t look bizarre, but I can&apos;t help but wonder if my scalp would actually feel nicer if it were hairless as well.</del>
		<ins>Never mind.
		It only feels nice when wet.
		It feels a bit strange when dry.</ins>
	</p>
	<p>
		When I went into work today, I saw I&apos;ve been granted the week off I requested.
		(The new schedule for the coming week is always posted on Friday.)
		The head manager also said nothing about it.
		My biggest fear was that my request would be denied, but my second-biggest fear would be that I&apos;d be questioned about it.
		I know I&apos;m writing about this on a website that anyone on the Internet can read, but aside from that, I&apos;d like to keep this private.
		I&apos;ve been running through the situation of being questioned about it so many times in my head that I&apos;d pretty much decided upon how much information to give if need be, and how to respond if pressured for more.
		I was just going to call it &quot;surgery&quot;, and refuse to get any more specific than that.
		Needing to heal from surgery seems like a valid enough excuse to get a week off from work, and it wouldn&apos;t at all be a lie.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="religion">
	<h2>Religion</h2>
	<p>
		The Mormons teach that there is no hell, and that people that fail to follow the church simply end up in a lesser heaven.
		That&apos;s not what their book says though.
		The Book of Mormon claims there are only two churches: the church of the lamb of Yahweh and the church of the devil.
		Earlier in the book, it is said that the church of the devil was formed by stripping away parts of the teachings of the church of the lamb of Yahweh.
		We can infer that this means any church not considered to be the correct church, but with similar teachings, is lumped together to form this &quot;church of the devil&quot;.
		It&apos;s saying there are many heads, but only one hydra.
		Now, the book is claiming that any that follow the church of the devil will be cast into hell.
		In other words, there is a hell, and if you can&apos;t correctly guess which version of Christianity is the correct one, you&apos;re going there.
		<del>Atheists aren&apos;t mentioned.
		Furthermore, there are the Greek, Roman, Native American, Norse, Chinese, Indian, et cetera churches that don&apos;t even share common origins with Christianity, and therefore don&apos;t fit the definition provided of what the church of the devil is.
		Which means there&apos;s more than two churches.
		Even if you lump churches together, you still have at least three: the church of the lamb of Yahweh, the church of the devil; a corrupted version of the church of the lamb of Yahweh, and churches never having been inspired by Yahweh or his lamb.</del>
		<ins>Never mind.
		A bit later, the book claims that anyone not specifically a part of the church of the lamb of Yahweh is by definition a part of the church of the devil.
		Even if you follow no church at all, you are somehow a member of the church of the devil.
		That&apos;s ridiculous.
		Furthermore though, it means that anyone not following the one true church is cast into hell.
		So much for the Mormons not having a hell in their religion.</ins>
	</p>
	<p>
		I don&apos;t really have much to wear to church, so I stopped by the second-hand store before work.
		I couldn&apos;t find much in my size, seeing as I&apos;ve got the size of a male and the style of a female.
		I did find a semi-decent shirt, though it&apos;s a bit sheer, and an under shirt to go with it.
		It&apos;s not exactly what I&apos;d describe as church-wear, but it&apos;s decent enough for now, and it&apos;s definitely something I&apos;d wear outside of church.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t complete all the reading material by today like I wanted to, but I skimmed enough to get a discussion post in.
		Due to the nature of that course&apos;s learning journal assignment, my post is stored there instead of here.
		However, I also made a post in the other course:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			You mention $a[FTP] and $a[IRC] being a part of Web 1.0, but that doesn&apos;t make sense because $a[FTP] and $a[IRC] aren&apos;t a part of the Web at all.
			$a[FTP] and $a[IRC] are entirely separate protocols from the Web, though like email, $a[FTP], $a[IRC], and the Web all run on top of the Internet.
			You also claim $a[VoIP] to be a part of Web 2.0, but again, $a[VoIP] isn&apos;t a part of the Web at all, let alone a specific pseudo-version of the Web.
			$a[VoIP] is Voice over Internet Protocol, which makes it yet another service to run on the Internet, but it has nothing to do with the Web.
		</p>
		<p>
			Internet Protocol ($a[IP]), the protocol that makes up the Internet, powers all of the services you mentioned.
			Hypertext Transfer Protocol ($a[HTTP]) is the protocol that defines the Web.
			$a[HTTP] certainly runs on top of $a[IP], but the two shouldn&apos;t be confused as being synonymous.
			The Internet contains much more than just the Web, and non-Web Internet services cannot be classified as a part of the Web.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="typos">
	<h2>Typographical errors</h2>
	<p>
		It&apos;s amazing how many typos I find when I go back and look at my old pages.
		I hope I&apos;m making fewer mistakes these days than I used to.
		Every once in a while though, someone will send me an email about an old page of mine, giving the $a[URI], but also giving as little context as they can in regards to what they&apos;re talking about.
		So I&apos;ve got to go back and re-read my past work to understand their email.
		I find all these mistakes while I&apos;m trying to figure out what they mean in their letter.
		Missing words, wrong words that sound the same in speech ...
		Things my spell checker can&apos;t catch.
		Every once in a while, I find a page written during that period when my spell checker wasn&apos;t working properly, too.
	</p>
	<p>
		Also, please remember that $a[URI]s are case sensitive.
		Someone wrote to me today about a page in the <code>04-april</code> directory.
		It took me a while to figure out why the page was turning up a <code>404</code> for me.
		&quot;April&quot; is a proper noun though.
		It&apos;s the <code>04-April</code> directory, not the <code>04-april</code> directory.
	</p>
</section>
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